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Upon the unfortunate event that you family animal turns up missing or lets say you find a cute stray dog in your neighborhood, this is a place that you can bulletin any lost and found animals. Yes of course you want to post signs but how about posting a digital bulletin so that people can use as a resource for lost or found dogs. If you have further questions please contact our Animal Control Division at 623.333.7012.

Why a drought plan?
The City of Avondale recognizes the potential consequences to its citizens of drought and reduced water supplies and the importance of planning for these conditions.

What is drought?Drought is a prolonged period of significant below average precipitation. It is a natural cycle of the climate in the desert southwest. Although Arizona has been in a meteorological drought for fifteen years, Avondale is not experiencing reductions in its water supplies. Long-range meteorological projections indicate the current drought will persist for an unknown period of time. Potential shortages on the Colorado River will have no direct impact on Avondale's water supply.

Drought is not a distinct event, but a combination of many coincidental physical and social factors working together over a period of time. Drought can be the result of seasonal or multi-year weather conditions, a curtailment of delivery from water suppliers because of water quantity or quality problems, a water supply system structural failure, or any number of other natural or man-made factors that lead to a supply insufficiency. When a supply insufficiency occurs, the water available in an area is not adequate to meet immediate unrestricted demands for a period of time that cannot be immediately defined.

The drought plan has been developed to assist the City in protecting its water supplies during drought conditions and to ensure the continuing economic development and stability of the City. The City’s strategy is to ensure adequate supply to meet existing and new water demands, and to minimize the effects of drought on our economy and quality of life. The Ordinance provides for appropriate responses to drought conditions and allows the City to allocate and monitor water use to existing, pending and future development within its jurisdictional boundaries.

Drought Ordinance GoalsBecause drought is not a constant or predictable condition in occurrence or duration, this Drought Ordinance establishes four (4) Drought Stages with voluntary and mandatory water use restrictions applicable to each Drought Stage. The goal at each Drought Stage is to have the least negative impact on the citizens and the economy, to share hardships equitably among classes of water users, and to maximize the benefits from the limited supply. To prevent the escalation of early stages to more restrictive ones, this Ordinance provides the City with the ability to react quickly and to implement additional restrictions as necessary and appropriate.

Some uses, such as reserves for fire suppression, critical cooling applications, and medical necessity take priority over less universally beneficial uses and are exempt from mandatory restrictions.
The goals of the Drought Ordinance include:

To protect the health and safety of the public.

To provide sufficient water to meet the domestic needs of the City’s customers.

To minimize disruption of the economy so that jobs are protected and regional economic stability is preserved.

To share the impacts and hardships caused by drought equitably and in proportion to the magnitude of the drought.

To provide the authority for enforcement of the City Code so that drought related water reduction goals are met.

City EffortsIn addition to the drought ordinance plan approved by Council in 2004, Avondale continues to make conscious efforts in reducing city water use by retrofitting older city buildings with efficient water use fixtures and ensuring new development makes the best use of water for landscaping purposes, such as installing drought tolerant landscaping.
Avondale's water conservation office works diligently to aid customers in reducing water use by:

providing free landscape classes to learn how to work an irrigation system, landscape maintenance, and watering

providing information on how to find and eliminate water leaks

offer free home evaluations of high water use concerns, related to water fixtures, landscapes, and pools.

offer free homeowner association landscape evaluations designed to reduce water use while maintaining an attractive landscape

providing water education to teachers and students

Avondale will have enough water supplies to meet current and future demands. Avondale's diverse water supply portfolio ensure that there will always be water when you turn on the faucet.

Regional Efforts

On August 16, 2013 the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its 24-month plan for the Colorado River that predicts reservoir levels will continue to drop. If water levels drop too far, a Colorado River shortage could be declared in 2016. Should this happen, lower priority CAP water users would be impacted, including underground storage by the Arizona Water Banking Authority and non-Indian agriculture. There would be no direct impact to the water supplies for cities, residential water users, and Native American Indian Tribes.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), Central Arizona Project (CAP), cities and towns have been planning and monitoring the situation for decades and act collectively with other cities (such as our membership in the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association (AMWUA) to plan and protect or water supplies.

A potential Colorado River shortage will have no direct impact on Avondale’s water supply.

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